2005 was quite a year for motorcycles and The Kneeslider. A lot of new technology, new motorcycles and generally really cool stuff. The U.S. finally saw the return of MotoGP at Laguna Seca. For those of us who follow the series, it was great to see it back on our home turf and watching Nicky [...]
December 2005
No more Harley Davidson police motorcycles? I’ve mentioned police bikes here on several occasions, noting Honda’s and BMW’s entries in the class, but it wasn’t until I noticed a news item from a police department in Oregon, that I heard the HD police bike is no more. They’re buying BMWs to replace their Harleys because [...]
Yamaha is going smokeless in 2006. A few days ago, Yamaha announced they were ending their sponsorship agreement with Altadis/Seita and their Fortuna and Gauloises brands of cigarettes. Evidently there has been a dispute between the parties which, according to Altadis/Seita, has not yet been resolved and may end up in court, but Yamaha seems [...]
If you like technical things, if you really love learning how things work, how pushing here moves that over there, then you are a natural for economics. I confess, I love economics. I love to study complex relationships between things, seeing the pushing and pulling motions translated into rotation and movements where you might not [...]
